DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT. Violation of Anti- Lobbying Provision and the Antideficiency Act
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1 For Release on Delivery Expected at 10:00 a.m ET Wednesday, February 4, 2015 United States Government Accountability Office Testimony Before the Subcommittee on Oversight and, Committee on Financial Services, House of Representatives DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT Violation of Anti- Lobbying Provision and the Antideficiency Act Statement of Edda Emmanuelli Perez, Managing Associate General Counsel Office of General Counsel
2 Chairman Duffy, Vice Chairman Fitzpatrick, Ranking Member Green, and members of the subcommittee: I am GAO s Managing Associate General Counsel responsible for GAO s appropriations law decisions and opinions. I am pleased to be here today to discuss our September 9, 2014, opinion concerning the Department of Housing and Urban Development s (HUD) use of appropriations to prepare and transmit an encouraging members of the public to contact specific senators regarding pending legislation. 1 A copy of the opinion can be found in the appendix to this statement. In the opinion, we determined that HUD violated an appropriations provision prohibiting the use of appropriated funds for indirect or grassroots lobbying in support of or in opposition to pending legislation. Because no funds were available for such purpose, HUD s actions also violated the Antideficiency Act, a fiscal statute central to Congress s constitutional power of the purse. As you may know, GAO provides legal decisions and opinions to Congress, its committees and Members, and federal agency officials. 2 This function is different from GAO s more widely-known audits and investigations. 3 Our authority to issue appropriations law decisions and opinions is drawn from the Comptroller General s authority to settle the accounts of the United States and a statutory direction to issue decisions upon the request of certain federal officials in advance of a payment of appropriated funds. 4 Our decisions and opinions are informed by facts and views that we solicit from the agency whose appropriation is at issue in the opinion. All of our decisions and opinions are publicly available on our Web site, 1 B , Sept. 9, Reprinted in Appendix I. 2 GAO, Principles of Federal Appropriations Law, Vol. I, 3 rd ed., ch. 1, C.2, GAO SP (Washington, D.C.: Jan. 2004). GAO, Procedures and Practices for Legal Decisions and Opinions, GAO SP (Washington, D.C.: Sept. 2006), available at 3 See 31 U.S.C Congress provides GAO with general authority to investigate the receipt, disbursement, and use of public funds, as well as other, more specific audit authorities. Id U.S.C Page 1
3 In this instance, we received a request for an opinion from Representative McHenry, this subcommittee s previous Chairman. Representative McHenry expressed concern about an sent by the Deputy Secretary of HUD to friends and colleagues on July 31, He asked GAO whether HUD violated any anti-lobbying provisions by transmitting the . Section 716 of the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2012, which was carried forward by the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013, prohibits the use of appropriated funds for indirect or grassroots lobbying in support of or in opposition to pending legislation. 5 Specifically, the prohibition states as follows: No part of any funds appropriated in this or any other Act shall be used by an agency of the executive branch, other than for normal and recognized executive-legislative relationships, for publicity or propaganda purposes, and for the preparation, distribution or use of any kit, pamphlet, booklet, publication, radio, television, or film presentation designed to support or defeat legislation pending before the Congress, except in presentation to the Congress 6 itself. As agreed upon with our requesters, we relied on the facts as determined through the investigation into this matter conducted by HUD s Office of Inspector General (OIG), as well as information that HUD provided to the subcommittee. We learned that the in question transmitted by the Deputy Secretary of HUD requested that recipients contact 17 named senators in support of the Senate s version of the Department of Transportation, HUD, and Related Agencies appropriations bill for fiscal year 2014, which was pending in the Senate at the time. The emphatically urged recipients to encourage the senators to vote in favor of procedural motions to advance consideration of the bill, to oppose specific amendments HUD considered harmful to the bill, and to vote in support of the bill itself. Among the over 1000 recipients of the Deputy 5 Pub. L. No , div. C, title VII, 716, 125 Stat. 786, 933 (Dec. 23, 2011), as carried forward by Pub. L. No , div. F, title I, 1101(a)(2), 1102, 1105, 127 Stat. 198, (Mar. 26, 2013). 6 Pub. L. No , 716. Page 2
4 Secretary s , were individuals from organizations that have engaged with HUD on housing issues, whose contact information HUD retained in the ordinary course of its work. We concluded that HUD violated section 716 by preparing and transmitting the . The appropriations provision prohibits indirect or grassroots lobbying urging support or opposition of legislation pending before Congress. Therefore, the provision is violated when there is evidence of a clear appeal by an agency to the public to contact Members of Congress in support of or in opposition to pending legislation. Here, the Deputy Secretary s made several clear appeals to the public to contact Members of Congress regarding HUD s pending appropriations bill. HUD did not deny that it engaged in grassroots lobbying. Rather, HUD emphasized that the was sent by its Deputy Secretary, who is a Presidentially-Appointed and Senate-Confirmed (PAS) official. Noting that the Department of Justice s (DOJ) Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) has opined that a similar anti-lobbying provision enforced by DOJ, 18 U.S.C. 1913, does not restrict the activities of certain executive branch officials a position on which some federal agencies have relied to determine that lobbying restrictions contained in appropriations laws also do not apply to PAS officials HUD asserted that its Deputy Secretary s was consistent with this guidance, as it was sent by a PAS official. DOJ exempts certain executive branch officials from application of section 1913 in view of the advocacy nature of such positions, and, further, believes exemption is necessary to avoid interference with the President s constitutional powers. Nevertheless, DOJ does caution against such officials engaging in the sort of lobbying activity section 1913 was intended to prevent. As we stated in our opinion, we do not agree that the Deputy Secretary is exempt from the appropriations provision. While the provision would not prevent the Deputy Secretary from engaging in normal executive-legislative relationships or from communicating HUD s views directly to the public, there is a bright-line rule prohibiting a clear agency appeal to the public to contact Members of Congress in support of or in opposition to pending legislation. By using its appropriated funds in violation of the prohibition, HUD also violated the Antideficiency Act. The Antideficiency Act is one of the major fiscal laws by which Congress enforces its constitutional control of the Page 3
5 public purse. The Antideficiency Act is a funds control statute designed to implement agency fiscal discipline. Under the Act, an officer or employee of the U.S. Government may not make or authorize an obligation 7 or expenditure exceeding the amount of an available appropriation. 8 The legal effect of section 716 is to make no funds available to HUD for indirect or grassroots lobbying regarding pending legislation. Accordingly, by obligating and expending funds to prepare and transmit the in question, HUD spent funds in excess of those available, therefore violating the Antideficiency Act. Executive agencies must report Antideficiency Act violations to the President and Congress, and transmit copies of their reports to GAO. 9 The Office of Management and Budget provides guidance to executive agencies on reporting violations. 10 If you or your staff have any questions about this testimony, please contact me at (202) or EmmanuelliPerezE@gao.gov. Contact points for our Office of Congressional Relations and Office of Public Affairs may be found on the last page of this statement. Julie Matta, Assistant General Counsel, and Shari Brewster, Senior Staff Attorney, made key contributions to this statement. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. This concludes my prepared statement. I would be happy to answer any questions that you or other members of the subcommittee have at this time. 7 In federal fiscal law, an obligation is a definite commitment that creates a legal liability of the government for the payment of goods [or] services ordered or received, or a legal duty on the part of the United States that could mature into a legal liability by virtue of actions on the part of [another] party beyond the control of the United States. GAO, A Glossary of Terms Used in the Federal Budget Process, GAO SP (Washington, D.C.: Sept. 2005), at U.S.C Id OMB Circular No. A-11, Preparation, Submission, and Execution of the Budget, pt. 4, 145 (July 25, 2014). To date, we are unaware that HUD has reported its Antideficiency Act violation. Page 4
6 Appendix I: Opinion to the Chairman of the House Appendix I: GAO Opinion to the Chairman of Financial Services Subcommittee Oversight and the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Page 5
7 Appendix I: GAO Opinion to the Chairman of the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Page 6
8 Appendix I: GAO Opinion to the Chairman of the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Page 7
9 Appendix I: GAO Opinion to the Chairman of the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Page 8
10 Appendix I: GAO Opinion to the Chairman of the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Page 9
11 Appendix I: GAO Opinion to the Chairman of the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Page 10
12 Appendix I: GAO Opinion to the Chairman of the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Page 11
13 Appendix I: GAO Opinion to the Chairman of the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Oversight and (986001) Page 12
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